One-liner pictures -- Grow a picture from a line of C code

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Enter the C-language expression that you want evaluated at every (x,y) location in the picture:

Here is the picture corresponding to the C-language expression in the form above:

Is this picture not what you expected? Check here.
(The picture is an uncompressed .bmp so it is easy to download and save as a test image. The original purpose of one-liner pictures was fast and easy test image creation.)

Examples

Copy/paste these into the form then edit to produce variants.

Three ways to make an impulse
(x == 0 && y == 0) ? 1 : 0
x || y ? 0 : 1
!(x || y)
Notice that all generated pictures are re-ranged to [0,255].

Green diamond
abs(x)+abs(y) < 80 ? green : 0

Circular cosine
cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y)/10.0)
Because of re-ranging, this is just as good as:
128 + 127*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y)/10.0)

A coloured field
abs(x-y)*red + (127-x)*green + (y+128)*blue

A [-green,green] ramp
y*green
Why does a green ramp have other colours? Because the range of values of y is [-128,127], so when the picture is re-ranged, 128 gets added to all of red, green and blue. If you want a pure green ramp, you have to do:
(y+128)*green

Uniformly distributed noise
rand() % 256
(The random number generator used here is believed to be random in its lower-order bits.)

Swiss flag.
abs(x) < 25 && abs(y) < 75 || abs(x) < 75 && abs(y) < 25 ? white : 0.8*red
For a colour image, you can multiply by white as shorthand for multiplying red, green and blue equally.

Gaussian hill
exp(-0.5*(x*x/8000.0+y*y/3000.0))
Just the central part of an axis-oriented 2D gaussian function.
Note the use of real constants (with decimal point) to ensure floating-point arithmetic.

Bulb
abs(x*x*x + y*y*y) < 90*90*90 ? 128*green + (128+x)*red + (255-abs(x+y))*blue : 0

Checkerboard
x & 32 ^ y & 32 ? 0 : 1
Try "x & 32 ^ y & 32 ? x : y" for a strange variation.

Colour bars
green * (x < 0) + red * (x < 0 ? x < -64 : x < 64) + blue * (x < 0 ? x < -64 ? x < -96 : x < -32 : x < 64 ? x < 32 : x < 96)
Not the easiest way to generate colour bars but demonstrates multiplication by a condition.

Painterly colour bars
sin(x/40.0)*green + cos(x/40.0)*red + sin(-x/40.0)*blue

A sine wave graph
x == 0 ? 0 : y == 0 ? 0 : (y-50*sin(x/4.0))*(y-50*sin((x-1)/4.0))<0 ? red : white
To draw graphs like this, you have to detect zero-crossings.

Gabor filter point spread function
exp(-0.5*(x*x/(20.0*20)+y*y/(20.0*20)))*cos(x/4.0)

Another Gabor filter (different variance, centre frequency and orientation)
exp(-0.5*(x*x/(30.0*30)+y*y/(30.0*30)))*cos((x*cos(1)+y*sin(1))/3.0)

Smiley
x*x + y*y > 82*82 ? white : x*x + y*y >= 80*80 || (x+30)*(x+30)+(y+20)*(y+20) < 12*12 || (x-30)*(x-30)+(y+20)*(y+20) < 12*12 || x*x + (y+30)*(y+30) >= 80*80 && x*x+(y+30)*(y+30)<=82*82 && y > 30 ? 0 : red + green

Face
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Obviously this one is generated by a program. It could be shorter -- note the substring "y&1?:188:188" -- but let's face it, this is not the way to make photographs!

John Robinson

Three ways to make an impulse (x == 0 && y == 0) ? 1 : 0 x \|\| y ? 0 : 1 !(x \|\| y) Notice that all generated pictures are re-ranged to [0,255].
Green diamond abs(x)+abs(y) < 80 ? green : 0
Circular cosine cos(sqrt(xx+yy)/10.0) Because of re-ranging, this is just as good as: 128 + 127cos(sqrt(xx+y*y)/10.0)
A coloured field abs(x-y)red + (127-x)green + (y+128)*blue
A [-green,green] ramp ygreen Why does a green ramp have other colours? Because the range of values of y is [-128,127], so when the picture is re-ranged, 128 gets added to all of red, green and blue. If you want a pure green ramp, you have to do: (y+128)green
Uniformly distributed noise rand() % 256 (The random number generator used here is believed to be random in its lower-order bits.)
Swiss flag. abs(x) < 25 && abs(y) < 75 \|\| abs(x) < 75 && abs(y) < 25 ? white : 0.8*red For a colour image, you can multiply by white as shorthand for multiplying red, green and blue equally.
Gaussian hill exp(-0.5(xx/8000.0+y*y/3000.0)) Just the central part of an axis-oriented 2D gaussian function. Note the use of real constants (with decimal point) to ensure floating-point arithmetic.
Bulb abs(xxx + yyy) < 909090 ? 128green + (128+x)red + (255-abs(x+y))*blue : 0
Checkerboard x & 32 ^ y & 32 ? 0 : 1 Try "x & 32 ^ y & 32 ? x : y" for a strange variation.
Colour bars green * (x < 0) + red * (x < 0 ? x < -64 : x < 64) + blue * (x < 0 ? x < -64 ? x < -96 : x < -32 : x < 64 ? x < 32 : x < 96) Not the easiest way to generate colour bars but demonstrates multiplication by a condition.
Painterly colour bars sin(x/40.0)green + cos(x/40.0)red + sin(-x/40.0)*blue
A sine wave graph x == 0 ? 0 : y == 0 ? 0 : (y-50sin(x/4.0))(y-50*sin((x-1)/4.0))<0 ? red : white To draw graphs like this, you have to detect zero-crossings.
Gabor filter point spread function exp(-0.5(xx/(20.020)+yy/(20.020)))cos(x/4.0)
Another Gabor filter (different variance, centre frequency and orientation) exp(-0.5(xx/(30.030)+yy/(30.030)))cos((xcos(1)+ysin(1))/3.0)
Smiley xx + yy > 8282 ? white : xx + yy >= 8080 \|\| (x+30)(x+30)+(y+20)(y+20) < 1212 \|\| (x-30)(x-30)+(y+20)(y+20) < 1212 \|\| xx + (y+30)(y+30) >= 8080 && xx+(y+30)(y+30)<=8282 && y > 30 ? 0 : red + green
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